I third the motion. How many do we need for it to pass? I thought the articles were moderated on this website?

I can't think of any reason why world leaders would walk away from this process if the secrecy were removed, unless they knew that what they were doing would be frowned upon by the people they claim to be representing.

Now there's a sentiment I cannot even pretend to disagree with for the purposes of devil's advocacy.

While I question your grounds for claiming a "moral right" to anything created before 1989, and your assertion that anything at all has been *stolen* from you, I do find your observation about the fact that you will never see any content created in your life time enter the public domain (if they are true, I know almost nothing about current copyright law, so I assume you are correct) to be a very interesting way of assessing the impact of the current copyright system. Personally, I haven't spent enough time considering the topic to be certain whether I am even in favor of a copyright system at all, but if you take it for granted that the essential concept is a good one, I think this is a very perceptive observation.

You are absolutely correct. Subaru will not buy back your original shifter. The dealer, however, may very well do so in order to keep your business.

I got a BS in Physics, and am considered to be more intelligent then most, and I assure you that I am not even *remotely* qualified to study global weather patterns.

#1: Good point, but good luck exercising any of those constitutionally recognized rights.

#2: "I just want to be left alone" is absolutely going to get many Americans on your side... until they want something from you.

#3: Man I hope you're right about this one! But so far, it's not looking too good. Obama is putting the same crooks, criminals and downright villains in office as his predecessor (as far as I can tell, I admit I haven't been keeping up here).

#4: Uhh, woot?

#5: Here here!

I think it goes without saying that the poster is either willing to learn a new language, or has simply overlooked that necessity (and it *is* a necessity). I don't think your post really adds any useful content to the discussion. Come to think of it, aside from venting my frustration at the uselessness of your response, I suppose mine doesn't add much either!

So here's some content:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and make an educated guess that you will find an inverse correlation between the level of "stability and provision of pubic services" and the level of "freedom, privacy and various other civil liberties" in a given country/economy. It's frustrating, but I suspect true. I *do not* suspect that it is necessary though...

Am I the only one that finds it peculiar that all that wildly different data was found on one hard drive? Security policies, social security numbers, facility blueprints, ...etc.? I mean, of course it's *possible*, but it seems a bit odd to me that such disparate kinds of data would all be on one server, let alone one hard drive.

Mod parent up!

A parents job is not to shadow their children around 24x7 for the first 18 years of their life, that is just absurd, and part of the general "paranoia" that our culture seems to be cultivating right now.

A parents job is to establish a safe environment in which their children can grow up in, and learn how to be an adult in.

What's wrong with documenting your procedures using...... a *document*? Okay, get fancy and make it an *HTML* document.

If you want to use a wiki, I've been happy with dokuwiki.